Archive for 'Short Fiction'

This month we discover some dark delights, but also encounter fiction bogged down in the end-of-summer doldrums. Of the five original stories in the July/August 2016 issue of recent Hugo-winner Uncanny Magazine, two can be said to be truly dark. …

Lavie Tidhar offers perhaps the best novella of the year in the July/August F&SF. “The Vanishing Kind” is set in London in the 1950s, but in an alternate London where the Nazis won WWII, and are in control in England. …

The April/May Double Issue of Asimov’s is a substantial one, full of good stories, almost all of them core SF. The best story here is also the most ambitious one: “Flight from the Ages” by Derek Künsken, a story taking place over a timespan of billions of years…

Analog leads off April with a fine story by Maggie Clark, “Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan”. It’s told by a woman native to the planet Yul-Katan, where the people worship the sun.

Clarkesworld is off to a good start in 2016, with two strong issues in January and February. The best story in the January Clarkesworld is Rich Larson’s “Extraction Request”, a viscerally powerful, disturbing, at times even horrific, bit of military SF….